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'Ja ever notice how there are three roughly equally common pronunciations of Iraq: Ih-rahk, Ih-rack, and Eye-rack? I make some observations about the phenomenon in an NPR.org commentary at http://tinyurl.com/ngwetx...   Read more

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My latest book

"When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse" (the title comes from Mark Twain) does for the parts of speech what "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" did for punctuation. Sort of.

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Other books by Ben Yagoda

Will Rogers: A Biography book coverThe Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (coedited with Kevin Kerrane) book coverAbout Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made book coverThe Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing book cover

Ben Yagoda teaches English, journalism and writing at the University of Delaware, and is the author, coauthor or editor of nine books, including The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing and About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. He has written about language, writing and other topics for Slate.com, the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, the American Scholar, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and many other publications. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.